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KALAVARAMAYE MADILO – About the cast and crew…

// July 6th, 2009 // 4 Comments » // Films, Kalavaramaye Madilo

They say casting is a very tough job…. was it for me? Not really.

I will start with my protagonist, as I said earlier, she is a girl and her name in the movie is Sreya…

Who can be Sreya? This was the question I asked everyone around me. Each person had a name to say, but none said Swathi. And that was the name I was thinking. When I suggested the name, everyone was very sure that she will carry off the first half without any difficulty, but the second half, they were not sure at all.

I was sure; something inside me told me Swathi is Sreya… my producer and my co director agreed with me and once Swathi agreed to do the film the project was on. (more…)

Music is the essence of Kalavaramaye madilo

// June 29th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Films, Kalavaramaye Madilo

Now that the audio is released and (I am sure) everyone is enjoying the music, let me share a few interesting titbits’ associated with the making of the music for Kalavaramaye Madilo.

My first choice of Music director for this film was Iliya Rajaa garu, second choice was Keeravani garu. Both did not fit into the budget of the film. The other name for consideration was Mr. Radhakrishna.

While we were discussing about the names, Mr. Mohan the producer of the film proposed the name of Mr. Sharreth. I asked him, is he the same person we see on ‘Asianet’ channel as a judge. He said yes.

Without batting an eyelid I said he is our music director (why? refer to my earlier article). Mr. Mohan immediately called him and I spoke to him… Mr. Sharreth was our music director.

In a couple of days Mr. Sharreth came to Hyderabad. I told him the story, He liked it very much. I wanted 8 songs in the film. He was excited, but there was a catch, it was, he has to compose the second song in the film with mistakes. I also told him, sir I need a song people can connect to, a song which sounds good to a normal audience. A song which can become very popular, yet it should have mistakes… He said, with mistakes, but why? I explained the need of it. He laughed at me but agreed, because he understood the need, for the story.

Next was who will write our lyrics.. (more…)

The idea of making Kalavaramaye Madilo came to me….

// June 21st, 2009 // 4 Comments » // Kalavaramaye Madilo

Two years ago this subject was born in my drawing room,   Tamma Reddy Bharadwaja garu and  I were sitting and discussing about the movie “million dollar baby”…  how brilliantly the director  portrayed the relationship between the   coach and  the pupil, and how wonderfully he managed to depict the aspiration and ambition of the protagonist and what lengths she was willing to go to achieve the goal. Clint Eastwood is a director par excellence; I am a great fan of him since my childhood.  With “Million Dollar baby”   the first seed for Kalavara maye…. was sowed….

One day my dear friend Ribu introduced me to a star singer show on Asia net channel. Though I did not understand a word of Malayalam, I used to watch the programme every day.  It is an amazing show because every one hour episode used to exhibit only two songs. The way the rendered song was dissected and the various nuances and subtle elements of music that the judges discussed with the participants, was phenomenal. As a Lay person with a musical ear, I was amazed on realising such subtle variations to music. I gathered that there is a great difference between the listening ear of a layman who enjoys music and the listening ear of an expert who understands music. What looked like a good song when the singer rendered it , became a song with mistakes when the judge spoke about it. Wow. That was something… on of the judge in the show is Mr. Sharreth ( kalavaramaye Madilo music director)  Another seed was sowed … (more…)